Re: Synaptic NMU upload in testing

[kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Yesterday, version 0.83+nmu1 of synaptic migrated to testing.  All fine
> and dandy, until I tried to run it:  Nothing, nada, zip.
>
> Trying from command line revealed that Synaptic was looking for a xapian
> function that was/is unavailable to it.  Error reported is -
>
> terminate called after throwing an instance of
> 'Xapian::FeatureUnavailableError' Aborted
>
> No idea what's missing (libxapian updated to v30)
>
> Synaptic 0.83+b1 still works.
>

It is working fine for me.

 % dpkg -l libxapian30 synaptic | grep ^ii
ii  libxapian30:amd64 1.4.0-2      amd64        Search engine library
ii  synaptic          0.83+nmu1    amd64        Graphical package manager

 % inxi -r
Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
           deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
           deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch main
contrib non-free
           deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates
main contrib non-free
           deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates
main contrib non-free
           deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
           deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main
contrib non-free

I am launching synaptic with
 % su-to-root -X -c synaptic


thanks
raju
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